mintab

mintab is a minimum ASCII table utilities for golang

Motivation

While tablewriter is useful, I wanted a smaller package with features such as backlog format support that tablewriter does not have.

Format

Text

Text merged

Compressed-text merged

Markdown merged

Backlog merged

Support

• Support markdown table format
• Support backlog table format
• Support multiple lines in a row
• Support direct loading of struct slices
• Support for column merging based on previous field values
• Support for column exclusion
• Support for HTML special character escapes (designed primarily for markdown)
• Support for string concatenation when the field is a slice of the primitive type values
• Support automatic string conversion of byte slices

Notes

• Nested structs are not supported
• Using reflect

Usage

Example

Todo

• Add paging for large inputs
• Add minimal styling
• Add caption
• Add escape sequence support
• Add word wrapping with new line
• Improve performance and reduce memory allocations

Author

nekrassov01

License

MIT